List the Corporate Excuses to Rape their Employees of Benefits

[bleedingheart]

My company just sent out the warning letter...the same one they send out each year around this time before they start cutting our benefits.

This years letter goes along these lines..

"We have been looking around at the pension and healthcare benefits that other companies our size offer and we find that our plans have been too generous, so we are going to do some trimming"


When I read the letter I basically told my coworker..."this is like me telling my kids, the folks up the street don't read to their kids at night and don't spend nearly that much time with them, so I have decided to cut back on the time we spend together to spend more of that time on myself"...

The best part is that our CEO and upper executives are making millions...and yet I don't read anything in their letter about their sacrifices.

[msongs]

1. doesn't the bible say god helps those who help themselves?

so the greedy management and ces' take more while the lower people who do all the real work get less.

Msongs
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[annabanana]

2. Our neighbors have decided that a stick

1" in diameter is most effective to beat their kids with. Therefore, we will be retiring the 1/4" switch to better reflect industry standards.

[bleedingheart]

3. but wait...we are going to make the kids pay for that bigger stick

cuz it would be unfair for us to pay for the new one since we are still paying off the cost of the first stick...

;-)

[endarkenment]

4. You know what?

I've been looking around at my family's expenses and it seems that mortgage payments are a real burden on our bottom line. I think I'll send the bank a letter informing them that in order to retain financial stability I will be cutting their payments by 10% this year.

Where is our Opposition Party? Where does it stand in the War on Working Families?

[acmejack]

8. It apparently doesn't.

It has sat on it's hands throughout this entire rape of the People. Certain members are actually complicit. Corporate interests have totally co-opted our party.

I take their deafening silence as a capitulation to those corporate interests and their deep pockets at best and a complete sell out in the worst case.

[tk2kewl]

5. everyone else is doing it...

so we've got to do it to compete.

translation: everyone else is doing it to give their execs and stockholders windfalls so we've got to screw the worker for the man too

[bleedingheart]

6. yeah...and then we got the company meeting where the "outsourcing"

word was used....

and they said...."We have looked into this but for now we feel that it would be best for our operations to stay here, but we need to keep up our numbers so that it stays that way"....

ooooh....scary....

[elehhhhna]

7. "our plans have been too generous". BARF ALERT.

Now that they've lowered the bar to meet their local competition, expect the good employees to leave.

[acmejack]

9. and where shall they go?

Where are the better jobs that they will leave for?

[newportdadde]

10. I just had Deja'vu.

I expect to have it again in a couple months with the next set of 'ajustments' to employee premiums.

[INdemo]

11. you didnt see this..

type of "swindle" by corporations with a Democratic administration. These corporations know they can get by with this under the Bush administration. In fact the Republicans welcome these actions. I believe that before Bush is finished more large corporations will be cutting wages,benifits,and healthcare just because they can.. and unions will be helpless.